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Post by tophb21 on Jun 22, 2009 20:17:15 GMT -5
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Post by BTB07 on Jun 22, 2009 20:18:51 GMT -5
I saw that. I do hope that folks don't blame Fehr for protecting the players from steroid testing. His job was to defend the players rights, and he took over the mantle and continues the MLBPA as the strongest union in pro sports.
After a guy like that leaves...what is the next guy supposed to do. He has been doing that job for 2 and a half decades.
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Post by tophb21 on Jun 22, 2009 20:23:55 GMT -5
I saw that. I do hope that folks don't blame Fehr for protecting the players from steroid testing. His job was to defend the players rights, and he took over the mantle and continues the MLBPA as the strongest union in pro sports. After a guy like that leaves...what is the next guy supposed to do. He has been doing that job for 2 and a half decades. Hmmm........not sure I completely agree with that. Not sure protecting the rights of a "select" percentage of players should have always taken a higher priority than protecting the best interest of all the players and the overall best interest of the game. He was in a precarious situation, but he could have worked sooner with MLB to get a testing program in place. Don't read this as saying that he's the one that should take the blame for lack of testing, but I do believe he had a responsiblity to the majority, to work to institute a policy sooner.
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Post by BTB07 on Jun 22, 2009 20:28:44 GMT -5
I saw that. I do hope that folks don't blame Fehr for protecting the players from steroid testing. His job was to defend the players rights, and he took over the mantle and continues the MLBPA as the strongest union in pro sports. After a guy like that leaves...what is the next guy supposed to do. He has been doing that job for 2 and a half decades. Hmmm........not sure I completely agree with that. Not sure protecting the rights of a "select" percentage of players should have always taken a higher priority than protecting the best interest of all the players and the overall best interest of the game. He was in a precarious situation, but he could have worked sooner with MLB to get a testing program in place. Don't read this as saying that he's the one that should take the blame for lack of testing, but I do believe he had a responsiblity to the majority, to work to institute a policy sooner. Yeah I can see that. Guess looking back it did hurt the players who were clean because of the cloud. Guess I didn't think about it in quite those terms, just as him doing what was best for the players (which turned out hurting some of them later).
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Post by tophb21 on Jun 22, 2009 20:33:11 GMT -5
Hmmm........not sure I completely agree with that. Not sure protecting the rights of a "select" percentage of players should have always taken a higher priority than protecting the best interest of all the players and the overall best interest of the game. He was in a precarious situation, but he could have worked sooner with MLB to get a testing program in place. Don't read this as saying that he's the one that should take the blame for lack of testing, but I do believe he had a responsiblity to the majority, to work to institute a policy sooner. Yeah I can see that. Guess looking back it did hurt the players who were clean because of the cloud. Guess I didn't think about it in quite those terms, just as him doing what was best for the players (which turned out hurting some of them later). Don't get me wrong, as a union boss, he did a great job at the collective bargaining table. I'm just not sure that all of his stances, mainly his early testing stance, was in the best interest of the players as a whole. I thought he worried about protecting each and every player and it in turned only benefited a select few.
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Post by BTB07 on Jun 22, 2009 20:36:03 GMT -5
Good points, and I agree with that stance Toph. He did a great job at the bargaining table, and when he finally gave in on the testing, it was made to be damn tough.
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